Seriously, Folks: School Voucher Proponents Need to Get Real
No, it’s the OPPONENTS of school choice that need to get real. Bottom line, we live in a free country, supposedly, and people should send their kids to the school of their choice. What other business, or service, can take your money and then tell you to like the product they give you no matter the quality…you have no choice but to accept it. Furthermore, it’s the only entity I’m aware of that makes everyone pay whether they use the service or not. Public education is a monopoly, by any definition. It’s failing and it has to be repaired. Opponents always castigate voucher programs without offering any reform at all. We get the obligatory liberal response we get for every other problem…”we need more funding”. No, you need to change the way you do business. Competition works every time it’s tried. If you opponents of choice are going to continue to demand public financing, meaning taxes, then we demand choice in the matter, period. The status quo will simply not do. We used to be the nation of the bold and new…it’s well past time we got back to that spirit….
